Jun 17, 20221 min read
BACKWARDS AND UPSIDE DOWN
We may have reached peak nonsense; that, or I'm suffering a catastrophic stroke. Today I awoke and the first two things I read were from...
Jun 8, 20223 min read
VIRGINIA WOOLF: TWITTER'S PATRON
Folks of all temperaments and occupations keenly share their belief that the Information Age is uniquely foolhardy and strident. They...
May 26, 202221 min read
SHE LOVES HER GUNS
After America's most recent and notable mass shooting, Heather Cox Richardson , professor of nineteenth-century American history at...
May 12, 20224 min read
WHY YOU TRANSMIT
Twenty-nine months into this pandemic I'm still running into folks who think that being immunized means they're immune to infection and...
May 5, 20227 min read
FROM MEDIAN INCOME TO MONEY LAUNDERING
I've been writing about this for twenty years and it's as excruciatingly tiresome as it is bleak, like watching a slow motion immolation....
Mar 31, 20228 min read
WHAT ARE WE SEEING?
I'm seeing mostly egregious war reporting and from every channel. Regarding the situation in Ukraine, ludicrous claims are continuously...
Mar 17, 20226 min read
YOU ARE NOT HERE
I’m sure we can all agree about much on the humanitarian side of this Russia/Ukraine thing. The attacks on civilian infrastructure,...
Mar 11, 20227 min read
'IT'S TIME TO GET BACK TO WORK'
It’s always a mistake to read the news. Reading local news tends to be worse still. I know this and yet I do it anyway. Here’s just one...
Mar 6, 202211 min read
TRAFFICKING
There have been a bunch of human trafficking cases in the news here in Canada in recent weeks and months. As ever, reading all these...
Feb 28, 20226 min read
WHAT I LEARNED IN UNIVERSITY
Perhaps the most important lessons I learned in university were not part of any curriculum or found in an assigned reading. They also...
